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Still active at 74, Von Frisch has now reported his latest discovery: subspecies of the honeybee (Apis mellifera) have a language, or dialect, all their own that cannot be understood by or taught to other subspecies. Explaining his findings before the Austrian Academy of Science...
...distinguished from the typical yellow jacket by having an extra black plate between the eye and the lower jaw, and by building football-shaped nests well above ground; a yellow jacket (V. pennsylvanica), which nests underground or in crevices in rocks or walls; and the domestic honeybee (Apis mellifera...
...honey bee (Apis mellifera and kindred species) is not native to the U.S., but many fugitives from domestic hives have taken to the woods...